In many countries in Central Europe and the USA,, summer solstice marks the beginning of summer. In Great Britain and Ireland however the season begins on 1 May and ends on 31 July, the summer solstice lies thus in the center of the season. In many countries, in which the calendarical/astronomical summer begins 20./21. June, the day of the summer solstice is designated as midsummer nevertheless, what possibly stems from an old common stone-age calendar.
you're assuming that for the next 7200 years we still would need leap seconds at around the same rate. But as leap seconds are needed to make up for the unpredictabale variations of earths rotation. We might need more, less, or even skip leap seconds instead of inserting them.
Yeah. an hour is meant to be 1/24 of a day. but unfortunatly, every day has a different length. You can have a look at the length of the days for each day the past 2 years here: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/
Yep, that means that meanwhile, our clocks are far more precise than the earth rotation itself.
If you design your whatever-network to max out at the average (or medium) usage, that'll drive costumers away, cause 50% of the time there will be angry costumers whose net/phone/water/whatever won't be working.
In other words: make the holder of the OS Trademarks/Rights/whatever file a complaint and they'll have to. But probably the OS-Community is too good tempered to preassure officials hard enough to start a full blown police raid in sight of lots of potential costumers. (whic I usually consider a good thing.)
Why should roads be aligned N/S or E/W in the first place? shouldnt they rather just follow the direction of the two points they are supposed to connect?
"what is permitted to Jupiter is not permitted to an ox"
If an important person does something, it does not necessarily mean that everyone can do it (cf. double standard). Iovi (also commonly rendered Jovi) is the dative form of Iuppiter ("Jupiter" or "Jove"), the chief god of the Romans.
ok. but FF needs a way to KNOW that your friend told you that his Self-signed Certificate is OK. FF can't tell your friends self-signed-certificate from the middlemans self-signed-certificate.
And your mean of teaching to ff you your friends are, is importing their certificates.
So.. no authentification? Great Idea. So everyone who stumbles upon that "secure" URL can download those confidental documents. But at least over an encrypted link..
So as you said: you need some other form of credentials. I guess you'd go with a htaccess-password. Now you need a secure channel to get that password to your accountant. (phone) "Hello Mr. Accountant, this is Bob. You recognize my voice, right? ok, to check your identity for downloading those documents use User foo with password bar on my website. To check MY identity, compare the SSL-Fingerprint with de:ad:be:ef."
So.. where's the problem?
Or in short: Encryption without authentification doesnt give you (or your site visitors!!) a secure channel to someone. (yourself or your visitors) It gives a secure channel to ANYONE (on BOTH ends of the connection!)!
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Exactly.
gives you a bit of a strange feeling, huh? :-)
In related news: The Globe isnt a sphere...
http://www.dirkhartwich.com/sat2/koordinaten.html
have a look at that potatoe-shaped thing. Makes you wonder how the earth manages to keep the poles pointing at exactly opposite directions anyway..
feeling just got still a bit stranger? :-)
Germany. Even took the liberty to do a quick lookup at wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenwende#Jahreszeiten
(Relevant paragraph post-babelfish) ..
(ok.. some manual cleanup.)
In many countries in Central Europe and the USA,, summer solstice marks the beginning of summer. In Great Britain and Ireland however the season begins on 1 May and ends on 31 July, the summer solstice lies thus in the center of the season. In many countries, in which the calendarical/astronomical summer begins 20. /21. June, the day of the summer solstice is designated as midsummer nevertheless, what possibly stems from an old common stone-age calendar.
Bad news.... Most people use UTC exactly because it fits their needs best...
There is one...
if ( abs(UT-UTC)>0.9seconds) insertleapsecond();
IIRC UT1 is used for UT
isnt it more like just moving a blanket one foor up or down, to the place where you actually feel cold?
UTC contains leap seconds BY DEFINITION! if you want to get rid of those, use TAI.
Good news.. Guess how timekeeping is already done. your "human time" is called UTC, and your other proposal already goes by the name TAI
Aeehmm... no?
Even though the those days may be called mid-summer, they still mark the beginning of summer here ie Europe too.
you're assuming that for the next 7200 years we still would need leap seconds at around the same rate. But as leap seconds are needed to make up for the unpredictabale variations of earths rotation. We might need more, less, or even skip leap seconds instead of inserting them.
Yeah. an hour is meant to be 1/24 of a day. but unfortunatly, every day has a different length. You can have a look at the length of the days for each day the past 2 years here: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/
Yep, that means that meanwhile, our clocks are far more precise than the earth rotation itself.
If you design your whatever-network to max out at the average (or medium) usage, that'll drive costumers away, cause 50% of the time there will be angry costumers whose net/phone/water/whatever won't be working.
You have to design for the average peak.
OMG, with a resolution of 41cm, I better keep the curtains closed... :-)
Is that warm?
Make them.
In other words: make the holder of the OS Trademarks/Rights/whatever file a complaint and they'll have to. But probably the OS-Community is too good tempered to preassure officials hard enough to start a full blown police raid in sight of lots of potential costumers. (whic I usually consider a good thing.)
Electric Doorbell? Baaaad Idea!
Why should roads be aligned N/S or E/W in the first place? shouldnt they rather just follow the direction of the two points they are supposed to connect?
As they say, "sh-t flows down-hill."
Nah. it much too often floats at the top.
You can find the real rank here: http://www.realmansolympics.com/
But IMHO there is only ONE fair sorting order of a medal rank. http://www.c64sets.com/details.html?id=210
Naahhh... they just watched the broadcast on NBC
-1 watched too much Star Trek.
(Bags mostly filled with water...)
My first "insensitive clod"...... How sweet!!!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(P-R)#Q
quod licet Iovi non licet bovi
"what is permitted to Jupiter is not permitted to an ox"
If an important person does something, it does not necessarily mean that everyone can do it (cf. double standard). Iovi (also commonly rendered Jovi) is the dative form of Iuppiter ("Jupiter" or "Jove"), the chief god of the Romans.
quod licet jovi, non licet bovi
May I ask which sites working with self-signed-certificates your parents needed to visit?
ok. but FF needs a way to KNOW that your friend told you that his Self-signed Certificate is OK. FF can't tell your friends self-signed-certificate from the middlemans self-signed-certificate. And your mean of teaching to ff you your friends are, is importing their certificates.
So.. no authentification? Great Idea. So everyone who stumbles upon that "secure" URL can download those confidental documents. But at least over an encrypted link.. So as you said: you need some other form of credentials. I guess you'd go with a htaccess-password. Now you need a secure channel to get that password to your accountant. (phone) "Hello Mr. Accountant, this is Bob. You recognize my voice, right? ok, to check your identity for downloading those documents use User foo with password bar on my website. To check MY identity, compare the SSL-Fingerprint with de:ad:be:ef." So.. where's the problem? Or in short: Encryption without authentification doesnt give you (or your site visitors!!) a secure channel to someone. (yourself or your visitors) It gives a secure channel to ANYONE (on BOTH ends of the connection!)!